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Venezuelan government and opposition stage rallies over disputed election result

VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro led a huge “march for peace” through Caracas on Saturday, as opposition leader Maria Corina Machado addressed big crowds rallying against the government.

As with every election in the country since 2013, the opposition dispute the validity of the official results from the July 28 poll, claiming to have evidence that they won based on voting tallies from individual polling stations. The Supreme Court is currently reviewing the voting records.

Ms Machado called on “the world and everyone in Venezuela [to] recognise that the president-elect is [opposition presidential candidate] Edmundo Gonzalez.” Mr Gonzalez has been recognised as the winner by the United States, Peru, Argentina, Ecuador, Panama and Costa Rica.

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